Check out the description of the winning entry below and read about some of our other favorite entries.

Winner: Build a Wireless, Wearable Pointing Device

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Adam Shih and Hyodong Lee designed and built a wireless pointing device with accelerometer-based motion control. Wearing a glove and a connected armband, they are able to control the pointer on a Windows, OS X, or Linux PC. The setup connects via standard USB ports. And the best part of all? Their components cost less than $100. We'll let them explain the full build instructions and design details.

Honorable Mentions

We got a lot of great entries and we'd be remiss if we didn't share some of our favorites. Here are some of the entries that really impressed us.

Learn to Type Easier With a Little Velcro

Adam sent us a simple, but lovable little hack. He was fed up with not being able to find the little plastic bumps that most keyboard manufacturers use to indicate home keys on a keyboard—the starting positions for your index fingers. So, he cut small pieces of the rough side of some adhesive-backed Velcro and stuck them on the keys. Now, they are easy to home in on.

Use AutoHotkey to Do Even More With Your Mouse Buttons

The-LEM send us a great little AutoHotkey script. It allows you to hold the right mouse button down while clicking the left button to quit the current program and to hold the right mouse button down while clicking a special thumb-button to close the current file without exiting the application. You could certainly modify the script to perform different actions, but what we really liked was the idea of using the buttons in combination. His full script is below. And if you're not using AutoHotkey yet, what are you waiting for?

Use Stickers to Indicate Your Remapped Keys

Envador brings us another simple idea that just makes things easier. He remapped unused keyboard keys (in his case, PrtScn, ScrLk, and Pause) to function as media control keys. And then he went a step further by creating stickers to indicate their new use.

A big thanks to everyone who took the time to send us entries! Be sure to check back every week for a new challenge.